LREM MP Coralie Dubost announced on Sunday that she was “retiring from political life”, two days after being singled out for her humane management of certain collaborators and the expensive use of her mandate fee advances, facts that she dispute.
“My person is targeted by unjust attacks”
“For the past few days, my person has been targeted by unjust attacks which are a disservice to my political group, the electoral deadlines and more generally democracy”, estimates the elected representative of the third constituency of Hérault, who indicated in a press release published on her Twitter account that she will not be a candidate for re-election in the June legislative elections.
According to a report by a human resources firm sent in the spring of 2021 to the ethics officer of the National Assembly, published Friday by Mediapart and of which AFP was aware, ex-collaborators of Ms. Dubost accuse her of having imposed on them ” tasks within the personal sphere”, “demeaning” remarks and behavior but also a “conflict of values” or “ethics” in particular on the use of his advances for mandate expenses.
“I refuse to be the instrument of an anti-parliamentary cabal”
It is in particular a question of “monthly clothing expenses within a range of 1,500 to 2,000 euros” or “very high restaurant costs”, explains the report.
“I refuse to be the instrument of an anti-parliamentary cabal, in the same way that I refuse to lend myself to a ping-pong of justifications which border on a phantasmagoric lynching”, adds the deputy, who indicates to withdraw from the political life and “to devote himself to (his) family”.
At Mediapart, Ms. Dubost – who, like every deputy, has a monthly advance for mandate expenses of 5,373 euros which is added to the remuneration of elected officials – indicated that she had reimbursed expenses deemed unrelated to the exercise of the mandate of deputy, after a control of the ethics officer of the National Assembly for the years 2018 and 2019.